Tour dates announced for Nick Saul & The Stop: Washington, New York, Boston, Portland, San Francisco

Posted Thursday September 19th 2013 by Jen Angel

The Stop: How the Fight for Good Food Transformed a Community and Inspired a Movement
Speaking Tour September/October 2013

We are pleased to announce a series of US events to celebrate the publication of Nick Saul and Andrea Curtis’s, "The Stop: How the Fight for Good Food Transformed a Community and Inspired a Movement," which details the transformation of a Canadian food bank into a community food center - and is a much needed critique to the way that North Americans think of food, poverty, and change. It is about reconceptualizing food banks from places where people are passive recipients of handouts that do very little to address poverty and hunger, to centers where people learn new skills and are engaged community members, and about changing our relationship to food and food politics.

“THE STOP is an inspiring true story about how a low-income neighborhood used good food to take charge of its community—it’s a great lesson for all of us.”
—Jamie Oliver

“The riveting inside story of a food bank that through perseverance and principle turned itself into one of our most visionary movements for justice and equality.”
—Naomi Klein, author of The Shock Doctrine and No Logo

Please join Nick Saul at the following public events, and forward to your friends and networks who are interested in food politics, food security, combating poverty, and supporting social change.

Sunday September 22, Brooklyn, NY
Brooklyn Book Festival, 2 pm
Brooklyn Borough Hall and Plaza, 209 Joralemon Street, Brooklyn NY 11201
Panel: Belly Battles: The Politics of What We Eat. Everybody knows that salt, sugar and fat are killing us, but just how did toxic food and empty calories become the norm? Michael Moss (Salt Sugar Fat: How the Food Giants Hooked Us) and Nick Saul (The Stop: How the Fight for Good Food Transformed a Community and Inspired a Movement) explore how and why food empires traffic in unhealthy food and the ways that communities are fighting back.
For more information: http://www.brooklynbookfestival.org/BBF/Home

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